On May 18, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Edd Barrett wrote:
On 18/05/07, Bryan Vyhmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anyone give any information about the Sun Netra X1 being used as
a pf firewall. I am specifically looking for throughput information.
I am considering using a pair for a theoretical maximum throughput of
about 45 Mbps. Can the Netra X1 comfortably handle this with carp(4)
and some pf firewalling. I know this is pretty generic but any
comments? (In case you are wondering, I would run pfsync on a VLAN on
the less used interface.) Thank you.
I have one of these as a buildbox, but I have only used it as a
personal server. Is there some kind of benchmarking tool I can run on
it to give you an idea? I have little knowledge on pf and I have never
used carp.
Thank you for the response. There isn't really an easy way to
benchmark this type of thing except for putting it in production. I
have one machine on the way and I can just test with that. I was just
hoping that someone else might already be using that setup.
One thing I was wondering about the X1. Does it support hard drives
larger than 137 GB or whatever that old limit was? I don't know if
Sun systems are affected by those same kind of issues as older PC
stuff but I don't want to get bitten by that one if they are.
Bryan
